Committed to the Work-House,
AS RUNAWAYS,
TWO Africans. One, a man about 30 years of age, cannot tell
his own, nor his owners name ; is 5 feet 2 ½ inches high ; lame
in the right leg, occasioned by a severe wound (as appears) by
a deep scar near the shin bone ; has striped homespun coattee,
and jacket and trowsers of white negro cloth. The other, a boy
of the Congo nation, has been here about 12 months, and says
he was stolen from a wharf, with another about the same age,
at which time he was clothed in a red flannel shirt, blue trowsers
and a blue cap ; he is about 13 years old, pock marked, and
has a remarkable flat nose.
Also, a negro seaman named Joshua Barnaby ; came here in a
sloop from Philadelphia, commanded by captain D[inc]onally,
and was, by him, committed as a deserter from his vessel ; he
says he is a freeman, and has a certificate thereof executed in
Philadelphia, and mentions said Barnaby to be « a native of
Charleston in the state of South-Carolina. » Upon examination
it plainly appears he never was here before, and was born at St.
Croix in the West-Indies ; he is therefore detained as a fugitive
; he is 5 feet 5 ½ inches high, and appears to be about 25 years
of age.
Daniel Ward, M. W. H.
October 22.